Posted by Dinah on January 27, 2003, at 23:51:41
In reply to Re: How do people decide which groups to join?, posted by noa on January 27, 2003, at 20:54:01
I probably found this place because of a search on whatever I had just been diagnosed with, or possibly some new drug I had been prescribed. Actually I think the site came up several times on google, which was intriguing because I did searches on obscure topics and Babble would be towards the top of the list of results.
I stuck around because of the really interesting people here. Willow and Mouse (with her wonderful post signoffs) and Dreamer and sar and Mair and Noa and Roo and Kiddo and AKC and Krazy Kat and all the others. I liked their conversations. I liked them.
I admired the knowledge of the medication board posters. Cam and Elizabeth and Medlib, all the others. I might not have understood one word in three, but I respected them.
I stayed long term both because of the posters and because I admired Dr. Bob and the way he administered the site with humor and kindness. I tend to stick to the more closely monitored sites on the web because of the tendency to unpleasantness and flaming and such that seems to come with anonymity. No, not true. The real life groups I have belonged to are the same way. :( Dr. Bob, may I clone you and send you to be president of a few local clubs?
But I'll bet a lot of why people decide to stay here depends on their attitudes to authority figures. I happen to be quite favoribly inclined to authority figures.
Now why does this site attract such intriguing posters? That I don't know. Perhaps you just lucked out with the first few, Dr. Bob, and they attracted the rest.
Pure chance. Can your study account for that?
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